Equities trading activity among retail investors has increased significantly in the past two years, primarily due to the introduction of zero commission trading and the debut of innovative new retail ...

Speculative options trading is on the rise again among individual investors alongside a rally in so-called meme stocks, reviving a trend that swept Wall Street last year but faded as markets turned ...

Meme stocks redux! Several stocks, many with high short-interest, traded huge option volumes Wednesday. High short interest was a characteristic some speculators used to identify opportunities in the ...

Whether retail investors profit from their bets on GameStop and AMC Entertainment or not, one group of companies looks set to cash in from the frenzied trading: stock exchanges. So-called meme stocks, ...

There's something off about the recent explosion in meme stocks like GameStop, one market pro writes. Deep out-of-the-money call options saw an explosion in trading volume just before the return of ...